Talk:Clarissa
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This "article" (which originally came verbatim from the Samuel Richardson article) reads like a book report. I've done a (very) little copyediting, but was unable to improve it much. Hence I append the following notice. - dcljr (talk) 06:33, 22 May 2005 (UTC)
I have removed the "cleanup-tone" notice from here and will add it instead to the actual article. Dr Gangrene 3 July 2005 13:56 (UTC)
[edit] Synopsis
I edited the synopsis the other week (sorry for not commenting at the time) as it contained the glaring inaccuracy of claiming that Clarissa is successfully forced into a marriage by her family, when in fact she runs away just before they can do so. It's generally a fairly poor synopsis, I suspect the author had not read the novel. For instance, it implies that Lovelace is forced into raping Clarissa, and also that the rape directly causes her death. Clarissa dies of a lingering illness which is not named, although judging from her symptoms and behaviour the most likely modern diagnosis would be anorexia (this theory is controversial). Most characters and events are left out. I could possibly do a better job given a little time, I'm currently on my third reading of the text and will be running an online reading group for it in January.
Elettaria 18:38, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
Anorexia? No way. She starves herself to death in order to restore her "virtue" lost during the unconscious whore-house raping. To say she has anorexia implies that she had body image issues. I don't think that applies here.
geoffr111 22:52, 18 January 2007 (EST)
Fixed the plot synopsis; someone had apparently deleted a large, random chunk out of the middle such that it no longer made grammatical sense. I restored it as it was two edits ago with the exception that I changed that Lovelace's desire for Clarissa "FORCES" him to rape her to the more appropriate "DRIVES." Also, I changed that she "REMAINS" dangerously ill to "BECOMES" since, as Elettaria has said, the former seems to suggest, erroneously, that the rape causes it.
geoffr111 11:32, 18 October 2007 (EST)
[edit] Critical reading
Is there any particular reason this article has no mention to Terry Eagleton and his Rape of Clarissa? --Aphaia 11:51, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
- I would presume that it's because no one has been able to write something and source it with reliable sources? McKay 15:41, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
